Patrick Vande Walle

And BTW, you could also extend the question to Desiree, who will be part of the Euralo board, while at the same time being a member of the ISOC board and an employee of a major gTLD technical operator and registry.

And no doubt you will get the same answer.

Interesting that this question is asked over and over again for ISOC (yes, Adam, your impression was correct, you are not the first).

BTW, Bret Fausett was at the same time the ALAC Liaison to the GNSO and the lawyer of a company suing ICANN, and the matter raised much less concern. Sometimes I wonder why.

To be extremely clear, Bret did an excellent job (as ALAC rep, I mean - as for lawyer against ICANN I cannot judge), and to the best of my knowledge managed to keep the two hats not interfering too much. However, you might agree on the fact that it has been fairly embarassing for the GNSO, and to a certain extent also for ALAC, to hold discussions with the presence of a lawyer representing the counterpart.

Cheers,

Roberto